Dominion Card Picker v1.1.8

A small update to the Dominion Card Picker program, mostly in the form of a few tweaks to the ‘redundancy/useless card’ filter. Thanks to several users for submitting suggested changes to these filters. By request, the “Don’t allow more than one cost-5 Treasure Card” option has been removed. I added a new filter specific to Contraband, but a few of the other cost-5 Treasure cards may need filters added too (e.g. Cache, Stash, and Horn of Plenty). The updated list of filters the option applies are as follows:

Only allow Quarry if there is at least one Festival, Market, or an Action card costing 6 or more.

Only allow cards with on-trash abilities if there is at least 1 card that allows you trash them.

Only allow Squire if there is an Attack card.

I am still considering methods for adding the “Minimize the 5/2 vs. 4/3 split strength variation” restriction back in. It might be possible to replicate the councilroom.com ‘best and worst buys’ data using the Goko server, but at this point I’m thinking more about attempting to use my never-released Dominion Deck Calculator to evaluate the opening (buying) power of each Kingdom card pair. The calculator was unfortunately unable to handle the complex probabilities involved as numerous cards were added to the deck, but it was very adequate for the first few turns of the game, and so has some potential still. If anyone is interested in this project, I’d be happy to share more about how the Deck Calculator works.